Jack Lesberg
Jack Lesberg (February 14, 1920 – September 17, 2005) was a jazz double-bassist. Lesberg performed with many famous jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Jack Teagarden, Sarah Vaughan and Benny Goodman, with whom he went on several international tours. He also performed in the New York City Symphony under Leonard Bernstein in the 1940s. A native of Boston, Lesberg had the misfortune of playing in that city's Cocoanut Grove on the night in 1942 when 492 people lost their lives in a fire. His escape was memorialized by fellow bassist Charles Mingus in an unpublished section of Mingus's autobiography Beneath the Underdog; this passage was read by rapper Chuck D. on the Mingus tribute album Weird Nightmare. Lesberg continued to tour in the 1980s and was interviewed for KCEA radio in 1984 following a performance in Menlo Park, California. During the taped interview Jack spoke of the many bands and performers he worked with and expressed his feelings that he felt blessed to be a musician. |
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Birth and Death Data: Born February 14, 1920 (Boston), Died September 17, 2005 (Englewood)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1942 - 1962
Roles Represented in DAHR: string bass, guitar
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Recordings (Results 1-25 of 87 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | BS-073671 | 10-in. | 4/1/1942 | Pennsylvania polka | André Musette Orchestra | Instrumental ensemble | instrumentalist, string bass | |
Victor | E0FB-3282 | 10-in. | 2/23/1950 | Chug-a-lug | Continental Capers ; Merrie Musette Orchestra | Instrumental ensemble, with vocal ensemble | instrumentalist, string bass | |
Victor | E0VB-3283 | 10-in. | 2/23/1950 | The Chalet in the valley | Continental Capers ; Merrie Musette Orchestra | Instrumental ensemble, with vocal ensemble | instrumentalist, string bass | |
Victor | E1VB-2966 | 10-in. | 8/10/1951 | I remember when | Eddie Fisher | Male vocal solo, with orchestra and vocal sensemble | instrumentalist, string bass | |
Decca | 72933 | 10-in. | 6/14/1945 | Lady be good-1 | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | ||
Decca | 72934 | 10-in. | 6/14/1945 | Swanee-2 | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | ||
Decca | 73480 | 3/27/1946 | Farewell blues | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 73481 | 3/27/1946 | Improvisation for march of time | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 73482 | 3/27/1946 | She's funny that way-1 | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 73483 | 3/27/1946 | Stars fell on Alabama | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 73646 | 7/17/1946 | Some sunny day | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 73647 | 7/17/1946 | Just you, just me-1 | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 73648 | 7/17/1946 | Atlanta blues -1 | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 73649 | 7/17/1946 | The way you look tonight | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 74023 | 8/5/1947 | My melancholy baby | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 74024 | 8/5/1947 | Tulip time in Holland | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 74025 | 8/5/1947 | Nobody knows | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 74026 | 8/5/1947 | We called it music | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75227 | 9/6/1949 | That lucky old sun | Louis Armstrong ; Gordon Jenkins and his Chorus and Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75228 | 9/6/1949 | Blueberry hill-1 | Louis Armstrong ; Gordon Jenkins and his Chorus and Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75421 | 10/19/1949 | You're my thrill | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75422 | 10/19/1949 | Crazy he calls me | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75423 | 10/19/1949 | Please tell me now | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75424 | 10/19/1949 | Somebody's on my mind | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75866 | 2/16/1950 | If I knew you were comin', I'd 've baked a cake | Georgia Gibbs | instrumentalist, string bass |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Lesberg, Jack," accessed March 31, 2023, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/205783.
Lesberg, Jack. (2023). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved March 31, 2023, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/205783.
"Lesberg, Jack." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2023. Web. 31 March 2023.
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LCNAR: Lesberg, Jack - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91115180
Wikidata: Jack Lesberg - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1677101
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/66652349
MusicBrainz: Jack Lesberg - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2608b153-45b8-4e71-8c7b-ac879997103a
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